Ruth Baron, R.N.  Staff Research Assistant (916) 734-7878 ruth.baron@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu  |
Colleen Cameron  Administrative Assistant III (916) 734-3640 cicameron@ucdavis.edu Colleen Cameron, Admin III, provides support to various projects. Colleen supports administrative and project team meetings, steering committee meetings, and ad hoc committees and ensures the efficient operation of supported projects. |
David Chin  Graduate Student Researcher (916) 734-4793 dlchin@ucdavis.edu David is a first year graduate student in the Graduate Group in Epidemiology with research interests in quality of health care, iatrogenesis prevention, injury epidemiology in the hospital setting, and healthcare access by underrepresented populations. He will be working on Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Quality Indicators and the Emergency Preparedness Management projects with Dr. Patrick Romano. David holds undergraduate degrees in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from UC Santa Cruz. His prior experience includes laboratory work at Stanford and the University of Pittsburgh. |
Wilhelmina Cottman  Operations Manager (916) 734-2818 wpcottman@ucdavis.edu Wilhelmina (Willi) Cottman has been with the center since 2003, and serves a dual role as Operations Manager, responsible for day-to-day Center management and post-award grants administration, as well as project management. Ms. Cottman has a BA in Education and Counseling, and more than 37 years of management experience. Of those 37 years, more than 20 have been with UC Davis. |
Carolyn Coleman  Financial Manager (916) 734-4082 cmcoleman@ucdavis.edu Carolyn serves as the Center’s Financial Analyst. She is responsible for providing comprehensive financial oversight and support for the Center in the areas of fiscal management, expenditure control, compliance, and contract and grant administration. Carolyn has a BS in Business Administration-Finance from CSUS. |
Dionne Evans Dean, B.S.  Project Coordinator (916) 734-5766 dmevans@ucdavis.edu Dionne holds a Bachelor of Science degree in neurobiology, physiology and behavior from UC Davis and is currently working on an Master of Health Administration from the University of Southern California. She serves as the project coordinator for the Cancer Health Empowerment for Living without Pain (Ca-HELP) study. In this capacity she is involved with the recruitment of individuals experiencing cancer related pain at three local health care systems: the UCD Davis Cancer Center, Kaiser Permanente, and the Veterans Administration at Mather. She is also involved in the training and monitoring of lay health educators from the Sacramento community who meet with Ca-HELP study participants educating them on pain management as well as the importance of communicating with their doctor about pain. Dionne is in the process of completing her Masters in Health Administration through the University of Southern California, Sacramento campus. |
Teresa Farley  Research Project Manager (916) 734-4665 tlfarley@ucdavis.edu Teresa joined the center in 2004 and brings over 15 years of project and operations management. She currently serves as a Research Project Manager providing leadership on various research projects and assisting with the daily operations of the center. Her current projects include research in the areas of the HPV Vaccine, Health Care quality indicators and Nurse Retention. Teresa is especially interested in community based research, working in collaboration with a variety of providers, community partners, underserved populations and non-native English speakers. Teresa graduated with a B.A. in Child Development from CSUS. She is bilingual, reading, writing and speaking Spanish fluently. |
Nicole Bloser Gabler, M.H.A., M.P.H.  Graduate Student Researcher (916) 734-2399 nrbloser@ucdavis.edu Nicole has been working at the Center since 2005 and is also a PhD student in the Graduate Group in Epidemiology at UC Davis. Her research interests include meta analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, clinical trial methodology, and health status measurement. Her dissertation involves the potential cost-effectiveness of the n-of-1 clinical trial, under the mentorship of Drs. Richard Kravitz, Paul Leigh, and Dan Tancredi. Nicole received a BS in Cellular / Molecular Biology and Sociology, an MHA in Healthcare Administration and an MPH in Epidemiology, all from Tulane University. |
Tammy Gee  Financial Assistant (916) 734-2877 tamgee@ucdavis.edu |
Suzy Hale  Financial / Admin Assistant (916) 734-2818 suzette.hale@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu Suzy is a UC Davis veteran, bringing over 23 years of UC Davis and UC Davis Health System experience to her Center role as Financial and Administrative Assistant. |
Julie Rainwater, Ph. D. Research Sociologist in General Medicine (916) 734-2827 jarainwater@ucdavis.edu Research Interests: Use of information on quality of care in a rapidly changing health care environment; consumer access to quality information; role of media in disseminating quality of care information to consumers. |
Dominique Ritley, M.P.H.  Research Analyst (916) 734-2681 dritley@ucdavis.edu Dominique Ritley joined the Center as a research analyst in 2006. Her experience in health policy is most recently applied to a project with the California Department of Managed Health Care, Office of Patient Advocate to evaluate and recommend new measures for inclusion in California's Healthcare Quality Report Card. She also participated in the California Health Benefits Review Program providing medical effectiveness and public health analysis of California legislation impacting health benefits. Dominique received her MPH in public health policy and administration from the University of Michigan School of Public Health. |
Banafsheh Sadeghi Postdoctoral Scholar (916) 734-7876 bsadeghi@ucdavis.edu |
Naomi Saito  Graduate Student Researcher (916) 734-7876 nsaito@wald.ucdavis.edu Naomi is a first year graduate student in the Graduate Group in Biostatistics at UC Davis. She has worked as a Clinical Nurse II in inpatient units at UC Davis Medical Center for seven years. Naomi's research interests are in chronic disease prevention and patient-care improvement. As a statistics student, she is also interested in machine learning and statistical computation. |
Christina Slee, M. P. H.  Staff Research Associate (916) 734-8548 cakuenneth@ucdavis.edu Christina Slee, MPH, graduated in 1995 from the University of Michigan with an MPH in health policy and administration. Prior to joining the UC Davis Center for Health Services Research, she conducted secondary analyses of vital records data at the Medical University of South Carolina to identify risk factors for preterm delivery and track outcomes of the regionalization of perinatal care in the state of South Carolina. She was hired as a research associate in the UC Davis telemedicine and rural health program in 1997. In 2001, she moved to the Center for Health Services Research to work on several statewide evaluations of HIV risk reduction programs funded by the State Office of AIDS. Since then, she has served as principal analyst and project manager of a cost effectiveness analysis of the use of tamoxifen for breast cancer chemoprevention, a cost effectiveness analysis of surveillance strategies for women who have been treated for CIN, a patient coaching intervention to improve cancer pain control, and outcomes tracking for women at risk for cardiovascular disease. She co-teaches a cost effectiveness analysis workshop in the K30 program with Joy Melnikow. She holds a BA in English and a BSJ in journalism from the University of Kansas. |
Laura Bates Sterner  Communications Officer, Assistant to the Director (916) 734-7918 lbsterner@ucdavis.edu Laura Bates Sterner came to the Center in late January of 2007 and assumed her current role in July 2007. She brings a variety of relevant experience to the Center. Laura spent ten years in the areas of marketing research management and administration before shifting her professional focus to graphic design, web site development, and communications. Laura is responsible for the Center's communications, which includes copy writing, design, editing and publication of the CHPR quarterly newsletter and periodic updating of the Center's website. She continues to coordinate the Center's weekly Thursday Seminar Series. Laura also provides administrative support to the Director, Associate and Deputy Directors and Operations Manager. |
Daniel J. Tancredi, Ph. D.  Assistant Professor (In Residence) of Pediatrics (916) 734-3293 djtancredi@ucdavis.edu Daniel Tancredi joined the Center in 2002, after gaining extensive experience in the design, implementation and analysis of health services and epidemiological research at Rush University Medical Center. Formally trained as a mathematical statistician at the University of Illinois at Chicago, his research interests include effective study designs and analysis plans for observational and experimental studies. He has particular interest in the analysis of correlated data, as arise in clinic-randomized trials, settings with repeated measurements and surveys that use complex probability sampling techniques. In 2007 Daniel Tancredi accepted a faculty appointment in the UC Davis School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics. A large part of his new role continues to be collaboration with investigators at the Center, where his faculty office is located. |